The Alden Apartments
35-40 83rd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1937
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1937
Durkam Operating Co. puts up the Alden Apartments, one of the district's late large buildings
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The six-story-and-basement Alden Apartments went up in 1937 for the Durkam Operating Co. to designs by the Cohn Brothers. It sits on a mid-block lot behind a low retaining wall and front garden. Two deep entrance courts bring in light and divide the long street front into two sections, a plan the landmarks report calls typical of the district's later apartment houses.
- 1937
The Alden gets a neo-Georgian face with giant fluted pilasters and a leaded fanlight entry
The Cohn Brothers gave the Alden neo-Georgian brick walls with cast-stone trim, brick quoins, and tall stone pilasters with stylized Corinthian capitals across the upper floors. A half-round porch shelters a paneled doorway with sidelights and a leaded fanlight, under a paired window with a broken pediment, and urns top the pedestals at the court. The dormer balconettes have since been removed, leaving their brackets, and the dormers resurfaced.
“Balconettes have been removed from the dormer windows (the brackets remain) and the dormers have been resurfaced.”
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